and it could have been that the jury agreed with him that none of the three elemants of the crime were committed.
In any event, this was a huge loss for the IRS. Keep in mind that they pretty much left him alone until he wrote a book. He was daring them to charge him by being “in you face” with the IRS. He wanted to prove his point in a court of law and called the bluff of the IRS.
Standard procedure is to first press criminal charges because the civil suit could screw up the criminal case. The civil suit will commence after this one.
And this is his one and only get out of jail card and from her e on the IRS has much more control over him because he can no longer use the same defense.
Either way the IRS won.
Now, true to protester form, this guy will claim he actually won something. Folks like you will turn over huge sums of money and some of you will end up in criminal court too.
Then the con game continues.